I noticed that now Stanza supports .cbr files , and can also open books from a URL. So a channel like Feedbooks is not there yet, but the roadwork is there. What is needed is an (HTML5 based?) open eComic format. Kind of ridiculous to go with “a bundled of compressed, page sized, fixed resolution [...]

Ha! I really enjoyed writing that, and was only disappointed that I couldn’t get ‘platform’ in there somehow. The beauty of a life in writing is that, unlike a pop career, it potentially lasts for decades. So far, even a really mainstream-friendly book with the most ever Feedbooks downloads has only a German translation and [...]

I think the value of the stats comes in in those cases where the writer is also taking on the role of marketer for her work. If she is focusing on publicizing the Feedbooks channel as part of her ‘marketing mix’, the stats tell her if that work is paying off. The other interesting thing [...]

Tokyo Zero is a weird example because it had 20K+ downloads before it ever appeared on Feedbooks, and I have never tried to actively ‘cross market’ the print and Feedbooks versions. I’ll probably do something like that with the Print Version of This Unhappy Planet once I get European POD set up. I have actually [...]